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June 30, 2008
AEHF Space Environments Testing Underway By Lockheed Martin
The first Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) military communications satellite is now undergoing thermal vacuum testing at the Lockheed Martin's Sunnyvale, California, facilities.
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IRIS Payload Milestones Achieved By Intelsat General
Intelsat General Corp., has achieved a number of key milestones with the satellite payload that will demonstrate Internet routing in space (IRIS) for the U.S. military.
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June 29, 2008
Joint STARS To Receive Expand Networks Acceleration
Expand Networks has announced Northrop Grumman and the United States Air Force have integrated their Accelerator 4820 and Accelerator 6940 into the Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS) Beyond Line of Sight (BLOS) communication system to provide application acceleration and bandwidth optimization.
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Serving Up Multi-Band Power To WGS Is SWE-DISH
SWE-DISH Satellite Systems AB, a DataPath company, has expanded its line of CommuniCase Technology (CCT) terminals to feature Ka-, Ku- and X-band capability.
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ORBITZ — NASA — Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne —
— NASA — Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne —
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June 25, 2008
Raytheon Tracking For Sat-based Defense
Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) has successfully completed a key satellite payload trade study with Northrop Grumman, the prime contractor for the Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS).
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June 24, 2008
Full Media Support For DVIDS By Crawford Communications
Crawford Communications, Inc. has secured a long-term agreement to provide content aggregation, media relations, Internet and satellite services for the U.S. military’s Digital Video and Imagery Distribution System (DVIDS).
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June 23, 2008
Lockheed Martin Moves AEHF Ahead In The Schedule
The Space and Missile Systems Center's Military Satellite Communications Systems Wing has announced the core propulsion module of the third Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) satellite was shipped from Lockheed Martin at Stennis Space Center, Mississippi, and arrived safely at Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Sunnyvale, California.
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DataPath to Provide Sat Communications in Afghanistan
DataPath, Inc., a provider of satellite and wireless communications networks has been awarded $3.7 million by the U.S. Army to manufacture and install DataPath DKET LT satellite communications hubs to support the U.S. military Joint Task Force in Afghanistan.
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DataPath DKET SatCom To Aid In Afghanistan
DataPath, Inc. has been awarded $3.7 million by the U.S. Army to manufacture and install DataPath DKET LT satellite communications hubs in support of the U.S. military Joint Task Force in Afghanistan.
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Warfighters To Receive Better Broadcasting From Arqiva
Arqiva has been awarded a contract by the Services Sound & Vision Corporation (SSVC) to significantly increase the number of BFBS (British Forces Broadcasting Service) television channels being broadcast to UK armed forces personnel stationed overseas.
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June 22, 2008
U.S.A.F. On Target With SBIRS
The Air Force has successfully completed the early on-orbit checkout of the second space based infrared systems (SBIRS) sensor operating in a highly elliptical orbit (HEO) over the northern hemisphere.
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June 17, 2008
Harris SATCOM Terminals Keep Navy Morale Shipshape
Harris Corporation [NYSE: HRS] received a potential five-year, $77 million Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract from the U.S. Navy for development and production of multiband satellite communications terminals.
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Raytheon Implements More Broadcasts For Pacific-Based Warfighters
The Global Broadcast Service Satellite Broadcast Manager facility in Wahiawa, Hawaii, recently began operational broadcasts over the U.S. Air Force's new Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) satellite.
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June 16, 2008
SWE-DISH Serves Up WGS System
SWE-DISH Satellite Systems AB, a DataPath company, has expanded its line of CommuniCase® Technology (CCT) terminals to feature Ka-, X-, and Ku-band capability.
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June 15, 2008
Wargames For SkyPort Global Communications
SkyPort Global Communications is participating in the Coalition Warrior Interoperability Demonstration (CWID), June 9th thorugh the 19th, at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Dahlgren, Virginia, and the Kelly Barracks in Stuttgart, Germany.
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AGS To Provide Increased Intelligence For U.S. Army
AMERICOM Government Services (AGS) has won a follow-on contract via a competitive tender with an initial value of $136.2 million over a five year base period in support of the U.S. Army’s TROJAN Network.
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June 10, 2008
Defense Secretary Gates Explains Reasons For Air Force Leadership Dismissals
If it were not for the serious decline in the Air Force's nuclear mission focus and performance, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said during a speech at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia on June 9th that he would not have felt the need to replace the Air Force leadership.
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June 5, 2008
Secretary of the Air Force and the USAF Chief Of Staff Forced To Resign + The Reasons For This Action
In an official memorandum from the Secretary of the Air Force, Office of Public Affairs, both the Secretary of the Air Force and the Chief of Staff United States Air Force have been forced to resign their posts.
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DataPath Fly-Away Brings WGS To Warfighters
DataPath, Inc. has launched the DataPath V-SNAP Fly-Away multi-band SATCOM terminal as part of its continued focus on developing systems that leverage the U.S. military's newly deployed Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) system.
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June 1, 2008
Tracking A Follow-On Contract Is Comtech Telecommunications Corp.
Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (NASDAQ:CMTL) last week announced their Maryland-based subsidiary, Comtech Mobile Datacom Corporation, received a $2.6 million follow-on contract from the Joint Contracting Command (JCC) — Iraq.
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May 29, 2008
Managing The X-Band Proves Enriching For Intelsat
Intelsat General Corporation has been awarded a contract by DRS Technologies Inc. to provide X-band satellite connectivity, fiber, and teleport services in the Middle East using Intelsat infrastructure and the Skynet satellite fleet which is owned and operated by Paradigm Secure Communications.
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May 28, 2008
U.S. Navy Will Acquire Harris Internet Technology For Ships At Sea
Harris Corporation (NYSE: HRS) has been awarded a potential five-year, $85 million Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract from the U.S. Navy.
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GPS OCX + Northrop Grumman
Northrop Grumman Corporation has completed the integrated baseline review for the U.S. Air Force Next-Generation Global Positioning System (GPS) Ground Control Segment (OCX), achieving two major milestone reviews within a matter of weeks.
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Space Flying Pegasus Eyes The Ionosphere For Problems
Air Force Space Command's Space Development and Test Wing has successfully concluded the launch and early orbit portion of operations for the Communication Navigation Outage Forecasting System satellite and accepted the spacecraft from the contractor, General Dynamics.
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May 20, 2008
NCS Gets SMART With MSV
Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) has announced the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) National Communications System (NCS) is partnering with MSV to provide Satellite Priority Service to the NCS priority service customers.
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Warrior Keeps On Trackin'... Satellites
Antenna Technology Communications Inc. (ATCi) has unveiled new features to its Warrior Satellite Surveillance System.
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Land Comm Mobility Aided By Explorer 727
hrane & Thrane has received Inmarsat approval of the EXPLORER 727, the company's new land mobile terminal.
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May 15, 2008
SMC's General Hamel Retires Today
The Commander of the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center, Lt. General Michael A. Hamel, will relinquish command of the Air Force acquisition center of excellence to Lt. General John T. "Tom" Sheridan.
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NexGen GPS Sat Awarded To... Lockheed Martin Space Systems
Officials from the Air Force Space Command's Space and Missile Systems Center's Global Positioning Systems Wing have just announced the award of the nexgen GPS Space System (GPS IIIA) prime contract—it's Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company of Newton, Pennsylvania, with a period of performance of FY 08-17 and valued at $1,463,969,301
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May 12, 2008
WGS-1 Gets a Big "WOW"
Boeing [NYSE: BA] reports the U.S. Air Force has placed the first Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) satellite into operation over the Pacific region.
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May 1, 2008
UAE Wants In On Remote Sensing
A remote sensing satellite is in the works for the United Arab Emirates and other member countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).
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U.S.A.F Changes Guard in the Space Based Infrared Systems Wing
Change happens, as evidenced at the Space Based Infrared Systems (SBIRS) Wing at Los Angeles Air Force Base.
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